by Dominique Fernandez · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246863137
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«La société du mystère» is the historical novel by Dominique Fernandez, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (608 pages, in French).
A contemporary narrator finds a rare 16th-century book in a second-hand bookshop: the memoirs of the Florentine painter Bronzino. Reading it reveals the flip side of Medici Florence, where power and censorship force artists to encode their heterodox ideas and forbidden loves in order to create.
Published on 11 January 2017. It won the Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente (2017).
For readers of historical fiction and the Italian Renaissance, with an interest in art and painting.
Dominique Fernandez is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books. Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity. In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini; and in 2007 he was elected a member of the Académie Française.
